Family Law New Lawyer Fellow

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Family Law New Lawyer Fellow

The candidate will help develop program infrastructure to scale service delivery, including document automation, workflow management systems, templates, and forms. Commit to learning how to provide limited scope legal services and leveraging the informal domestic relations trial process to scale access to legal help. Collaborate with the program team, including director, other fellows, paralegals, and clerks, and with the broader organization, including the legal products team, to deliver and improve services. Support community legal education program development, including outreach, curriculum building, networking, volunteer recruitment, and ambassadorship. Oversee and manage law clerks, interns, and volunteers. Use the organization’s tech stack to optimize workflow and communications. Use and help build the organization’s internal knowledge base regarding substantive legal and operational issues. Manage communication with clients, opposing parties, attorneys, and witnesses. Do extensive, substantive family law work, including legal research, discovery compilation and analysis, asset distribution calculations, negotiations, and trial preparation–formal and informal–such as memos, witness exams, motions, etc.; and Help make it fun because life is too short for work to be a bummer. Oregon law license in good standing. Spanish fluency strongly preferred (understanding, speaking, and writing). Proficient working in a highly digitized office and across multiple applications. Comfortable working remotely for the foreseeable future

Company info

The Commons Law Center
810 NW Marshall St, 300
Portland
Oregon
United States 97209
Website : https://thecommonslawcenter.org